THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY AND THE CHINA THRILLERS AWARD
WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021 'Enzo MacLeod is one of the most unusual
crime solvers I have ever met.' BookBrowse 'No one can create a more eloquently written
suspense novel than Peter May.' New York Journal of Books In a sleepy French village the body
of a man shot through the head is disinterred by the roots of a fallen tree. A week later a
famous art critic is viciously murdered in a nearby house. The deaths occurred more than
seventy years apart. Asked by a colleague to inspect the site of the former forensics expert
Enzo Macleod quickly finds himself embroiled in the investigation of the latter. Two
extraordinary narratives are set in train - one historical unfolding in the treacherous
wartime years of Occupied France the other contemporary set in the autumn of 2020 as France
re-enters Covid lockdown. And Enzo's investigations reveal an unexpected link between the
murders - the Mona Lisa. Tasked by the exiled General Charles de Gaulle to keep the world's
most famous painting out of Nazi hands after the fall of France in 1940 28-year-old Georgette
Pignal finds herself swept along by the tide of history. Following in the wake of Da Vinci's
Mona Lisa as it is moved from château to château by the Louvre she finds herself just one step
ahead of two German art experts sent to steal it for rival patrons - Hitler and Göring. What
none of them know is that the Louvre itself has taken exceptional measures to keep the painting
safe unwittingly setting in train a fatal sequence of events extending over seven decades.
Events that have led to both killings. The Night Gate spans three generations taking us from
war-torn London the Outer Hebrides of Scotland Berlin and Vichy France to the deadly enemy
facing the world in 2020. In his latest novel Peter May shows why he is one of the great
contemporary writers of crime fiction. LOVED THE NIGHT GATE? Read the first book in the
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SILENT DEATH
